Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And Jetty and he.
Speaker 3: Arms drawn.
Speaker 2: Room deep in the bowels of.
Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And hey, y'all, today
Speaker 1: we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 2: Pump Freezing Executor. What pump freezing Executor? Is that a.
Speaker 1: Supreme Court case that could be fundamental in the developing
Speaker 1: news in this early part of the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: Interesting, that's something I've never even heard of. So here
Speaker 1: I have a chance to learn something today. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you don't mess with Humphreys executor. He will break you
Speaker 1: in half. Boy, of course, I got a mix of
Speaker 1: bird flu and what's that three letter one that's going
Speaker 1: around RSV RSV? What's that stand for respiratory sinkial virus
Speaker 1: something like that. I don't think I am not a doctor, Jack,
Speaker 1: I think I got bird flu and monkey pucks.
Speaker 2: Wow, oh wow, that had to be quite a party.
Speaker 2: It was. We had fun.
Speaker 1: We all knew it was risky, but we had a
Speaker 1: good time. The memories will last forever. The videos will
Speaker 1: never be disclosed. No, we're all working from home now though,
Speaker 1: So it didn't go well, so you're ailing, huh, yeah,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? So midnight last night was
Speaker 1: the deadline for you lazy government workers to put in
Speaker 1: your list of the five things that you did last week.
Speaker 1: And the deadline kind of came and went, and a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of different department said, Hey, I don't worry
Speaker 1: about it, and uh, I don't know where we are
Speaker 1: on all that now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to over.
Speaker 1: React to anything, because that's kind of what you do
Speaker 1: when Trump is in the White House. But I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a good look to issue spurious orders that
Speaker 1: people kind of snicker at and ignore. Ere Elon Moskin all,
Speaker 1: you got the ear of the President. I love the
Speaker 1: doge thing. It's just don't do that. Why would you?
Speaker 1: It does water down the next directive, doesn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it's funny the counter arguments of burbling up.
Speaker 1: In my mind, Elon would probably say, no, I just
Speaker 1: wanted everybody to be talking about government workers having to
Speaker 1: prove what they do.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I said, oh, that's why you're on SpaceX and I
Speaker 1: don't run anything. Well, we probably have the clip, but
Speaker 1: Donald Trump explained, any estates is just to see if
Speaker 1: there's anybody there. I mean, if we don't get any response,
Speaker 1: will assume that there's nobody even doing that. We've got
Speaker 1: all kinds of people out there that don't even go
Speaker 1: to work that we're paying, and we're just trying to
Speaker 1: figure that out step one. So that's the way Trump
Speaker 1: explained it yesterday. But the fact that so many departments,
Speaker 1: including CHRISTINEO DHS Patel at FBI, his reasoning was, we
Speaker 1: got way too many security issues to do this sort
Speaker 1: of thing. But s and then another of other departments
Speaker 1: did join in. But yeah, ultimately, I just wonder what
Speaker 1: you wonder if it doesn't just like take a little
Speaker 1: the air out of the whole doge thing and like
Speaker 1: the next big directive to come down the line, people
Speaker 1: kind of shrug at in a way that they wouldn't
Speaker 1: have before. So we'll see, right, And just more generally,
Speaker 1: it matters in a system like ours whether you have
Speaker 1: popular support or not. Obviously it matters come election time.
Speaker 1: But just cultural speaking, if the country were to be
Speaker 1: swept up in doge mania and just be thrilled at
Speaker 1: the idea of waste and fraud being eliminated and no
Speaker 1: show workers fired from their jobs and taxes being lowered.
Speaker 1: That would matter fundamentally.
Speaker 2: To how successful it is.
Speaker 1: So I just I can't decide if this one was
Speaker 1: a dopey or again, maybe he just wanted America talking
Speaker 1: about government workers.
Speaker 2: What do they do? I'm sure we'll have to say.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but Manny, never ending mass media attention
Speaker 1: to here's someone who thought they could work in the
Speaker 1: department forever and found out differently. I planned to be
Speaker 1: here till I die, and now I don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. Yeah, welcome to the rest of everybody else.
Speaker 1: I just don't think that's landing the way they think
Speaker 1: it's landing for America, though I would agree those stories.
Speaker 2: I moved here for this job. Yes, I moved for
Speaker 2: a job one time too, and it didn't work out.
Speaker 2: It just it happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a headline in the New York Times today
Speaker 1: fired federal workers worry about housing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure they do. And what else?
Speaker 1: Joe Jones worked for the Department of Labor for twenty
Speaker 1: three years doing something and now wonders, Yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 1: he does doing something God, the idea that that government
Speaker 1: employment is as sacrosanct, it's permanent. It's like being some
Speaker 1: sort of high priest. Just stop it, America. What the
Speaker 1: what the hell? What? What?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: How?
Speaker 2: Did well?
Speaker 1: This attitude is crept upon us. Now it's infected the
Speaker 1: national psyche. Everybody has weird assumptions.
Speaker 2: I got a question for you.
Speaker 1: Since we're in the middle of a quadramic or maybe
Speaker 1: even a quintemic, with four or five diseases.
Speaker 2: Going around the country at one time, how.
Speaker 1: Often do you feel like when you feel kind of
Speaker 1: like I feel, is going to the doctor worth it?
Speaker 2: We're a waste of time.
Speaker 1: I feel like most of the time it's a waste
Speaker 1: of time in my life experience. Yeah, yeah, I would say,
Speaker 1: you know, unless you have like a high fever or
Speaker 1: there's just developed like really weird symptoms.
Speaker 2: There's nothing there.
Speaker 1: There's no medicine that you can't get over the counter,
Speaker 1: probably and.
Speaker 2: Rest, take some tile and all. I'll drink plenty of fluids.
Speaker 1: When the doctor says rests, always want to say, sir,
Speaker 1: are you gonna come take my kids to school?
Speaker 2: Or how's this gonna work?
Speaker 1: Could you get that lady up in the front office.
Speaker 1: She didn't seem busy. Can I borrow her for the afternoon? Actually,
Speaker 1: you know what, It's funny. I'm in a very cheery
Speaker 1: frame of mind, delighted to be here with that's good.
Speaker 1: My friend's doing my job, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: get into what I texted you about.
Speaker 2: I want to hear that.
Speaker 1: I want to hear that it's well see, no, no,
Speaker 1: because then I will be angry, and I will I
Speaker 1: will yell bad words, and I will want to murder people.
Speaker 2: Specific people.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe maybe you feel good and happy, but we
Speaker 1: the listener like angry Joe. So if we can poke
Speaker 1: you with a stick and maybe remind you of things
Speaker 1: that have gone wrong in your life in the past,
Speaker 1: anything to get you. I just I worry that every
Speaker 1: time I get into that headspace it shortens my life
Speaker 1: by five minutes, like smoking a cigarette.
Speaker 2: Would that be something if.
Speaker 1: They found that out, you might You might not know
Speaker 1: this because I think this is way back in the day,
Speaker 1: But anyway, they used to say every cigarette shortens your
Speaker 1: life by seven minutes.
Speaker 2: If they could do that, every time you.
Speaker 1: Get pissed off it shortens your life by ten minutes,
Speaker 1: that'd be funny.
Speaker 2: We definitely would happen inside of dob okay, deepress, deep press.
Speaker 1: Every time you get cussing angry, it shortens your life
Speaker 1: by a quarter of an hour.
Speaker 2: Well, can I get some sort of preview of the
Speaker 2: last six hours of my life? Maybe that's a good thing,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: God, Henry and I had a good discussion about that
Speaker 1: the other day, pretty heavy, And maybe I'll get to
Speaker 1: it later because it takes a lot of time. I
Speaker 1: don't remember how we started, but we oh the idea
Speaker 1: of dying in natural causes and how that used to
Speaker 1: be just a thing and now it no longer is
Speaker 1: they always have to name the specific thing that you
Speaker 1: died of, as opposed to you know, you're ninety seven
Speaker 1: years old, right. And then mainly the statistic that if
Speaker 1: you ask people if they want to die at home
Speaker 1: or at a hospital, it's almost one hundred percent of
Speaker 1: people want to die at home. The reality is almost
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of people die at a hospital. And
Speaker 1: how crazy that is that we're that far off of
Speaker 1: our wants from what we do. It's perverse. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's troubling. I'm sure there is some really really good
Speaker 1: journalism out there. On why that is, and soon, folks,
Speaker 1: the discussion will take a cheerier turn, I promise. But
Speaker 1: that is so ugly and perverse it's hard to believe
Speaker 1: it exists. What could be more my choice. There's also
Speaker 1: the statistics. I don't have them in front of me,
Speaker 1: but I know it. Something like ninety percent of the
Speaker 1: money you spend on healthcare in your life is in
Speaker 1: the last two weeks of your life or something like that.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of money changes hands in those
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks. Yeah, my goodness.
Speaker 1: Anywhow, that's an interesting topic we should start to show
Speaker 1: officially before the FCC, which I don't know how many
Speaker 1: of them responded with their list of the five things
Speaker 1: they did last week we spent Armstrong and Gaudia warning
Speaker 1: them for their language. That was one of those there,
Speaker 1: Nippen champagne, some country clubs.
Speaker 2: What did they even do? I'm probably a mouse Jut
Speaker 2: they'll have gide on this.
Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, February the twenty fifty or twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: where Armstrong and getting we approved of this program. Let's
Speaker 1: begin then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations.
Speaker 2: Here we go at Mark Jender the set of preface
Speaker 2: we have. Woman is a social construct that we've agreed upon.
Speaker 1: Typically we imagine womanhood as make a or whatever.
Speaker 2: There is a difference between.
Speaker 1: The word woman and being a biological female.
Speaker 2: Woman is a social contract that we use. That's a
Speaker 2: teacher or not just in college students.
Speaker 1: That's an educator who has declared that woman is whatever
Speaker 1: you want it to be, not it's completely different from
Speaker 1: biological female. All right, I can barely bother to break
Speaker 1: a sweat to answer an argument that idiotic and like
Speaker 1: came around ten minutes ago and is rejected by the
Speaker 1: vast majority of humans on earth. And when I say
Speaker 1: vast majority, it's like everyone that is a conservative commentator
Speaker 1: who's gone on college campuses and gotten into some arguments
Speaker 1: with various teachers and students, and pretty revelatory as to
Speaker 1: the attitudes on some of our campuses. And then you
Speaker 1: need to decide whether you need to want to send
Speaker 1: your kids there or if you've already sent your kids,
Speaker 1: if that was a good idea, right, speaking of popular consciousness,
Speaker 1: and if the society gets behind something, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like who was it? There's a great Supreme Court Lincoln
Speaker 1: Mark Twain, John Wayne, and somebody said essentially that if
Speaker 1: the John Wayne, if the people, if the culture values
Speaker 1: the Constitution, nobody can threaten it, really and if the
Speaker 1: culture doesn't support the Constitution, no court can save it.
Speaker 1: We have to believe in what we're doing. Anyway, It's
Speaker 1: I think it's really important to have people aware of
Speaker 1: how crazy education has gotten because it's off the rails.
Speaker 1: Speaking of author rails, we should probably take a break
Speaker 1: and have a time for Katy's headlines. Katie's headlines, We've
Speaker 1: got mail bag. Later this hour, we'll get into some
Speaker 1: of the news of the day all on the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here. Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. Yesterday a sad
Speaker 2: day for the United States at the UN. We can
Speaker 2: talk about that later. That vote came down while we're
Speaker 2: on the air.
Speaker 1: We voted with Russia and some of the other awful
Speaker 1: countries of the world against the idea of saying Russia's
Speaker 1: a bad guy. Well, yeah, yeah, we can talk about
Speaker 1: that looking forward to that. Also, Humphreys Executor and it's
Speaker 1: outsized effect on the American scene and how it's an
Speaker 1: idiotic court case that ought to be overturned and that
Speaker 1: will definitely change the look of federal government. Oh really,
Speaker 1: and that's in play because of what's going on now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to a large extent, it's these these organizations of these bodies,
Speaker 1: these departments that are created by an Act of Congress,
Speaker 1: but then they exercise executive power, but they're answerable to
Speaker 1: nobody democratically speaking, they're not answerable to the executive branch.
Speaker 1: And it was a dopey, in my opinion, nineteen thirty
Speaker 1: five Supreme Court case during FDR's reign of socialist terror
Speaker 1: that said.
Speaker 2: No, no, that's that's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they can do that, and it really hasn't been
Speaker 1: tested since that I know of anyway, But that's in play.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that among other things to come.
Speaker 1: Right now, let's figure out who's reporting what it's sorry,
Speaker 1: the monkey.
Speaker 2: Pots, monkey pomps. Katie Greek Katie from the Washington Post.
Speaker 4: Trump administration tells agencies that they can ignore Musk order
Speaker 4: on email reply.
Speaker 2: So who said that, Trump said?
Speaker 4: Trump Administration telling agencies Okay. From Newsweek, Putin says Zelenski
Speaker 4: has quote no chance in fair election as Ukrainians grow
Speaker 4: frustrated with his leadership.
Speaker 2: That's just not true.
Speaker 1: I don't he's trying to posture himself for the negotiations
Speaker 1: from the putin A. So I've said many times it's
Speaker 1: like trying to manipulate an alligator emotionally. He doesn't care
Speaker 1: whether you kiss his ass or threaten him. He doesn't care.
Speaker 4: From Fox News, Israel delays Palestinian prisoner release over Hamas
Speaker 4: disgusting hostage ceremony.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to talk about that a little bit
Speaker 1: later on us. It's absolutely horrifying. It will probably mean
Speaker 1: the end of this quote unquote peace process, which has
Speaker 1: been phony from the beginning. And those two little kids
Speaker 1: were murdered, murdered with the bare hands of Hamas. Little
Speaker 1: kids or babies, well right, they were mutilated to look
Speaker 1: like it was a bombing, even though the autopsies were unequivocal. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you weren't, This happened after we got off the
Speaker 1: air on Friday. But when the Harmas gave back the
Speaker 1: mom and her two dead babies, the babies had been
Speaker 1: murdered and the mom wasn't the mom, and the caskets
Speaker 1: were locked. It was all kinds of horrible jerking around Israel,
Speaker 1: and there's no way Israel should put up with it.
Speaker 2: Well, and it's intentional. It will get you know. I
Speaker 2: don't want to get off on this tangent.
Speaker 1: But Hamas doesn't want peace for a second. They want war.
Speaker 2: I say give it to them.
Speaker 4: The wording on this is priceless USA Today. Trump's announcement
Speaker 4: of a right wing media figure as FBI's deputy director has.
Speaker 2: The bureau worried. And we'll see how it goes. He's
Speaker 2: a smart guy.
Speaker 1: It's an unconventional choice.
Speaker 4: ABC News apprehensions along the Southern border plummeted in January.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because the word got out that there's no point
Speaker 1: in coming to the border because you're not gonna get in,
Speaker 1: and if you get in, you're gonna get deported.
Speaker 5: That.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's the message we needed out there in
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about that too.
Speaker 1: A really interesting perspective from a smart, fairly moderate guy
Speaker 1: at The New York Times, pointing out that there is
Speaker 1: not a single country on Earth that has permitted rampant
Speaker 1: immigration that hasn't seen their right wing emerged to stop
Speaker 1: it with huge popular support.
Speaker 4: Shocking NBC fake video of Trump kissing Musk's feet displayed
Speaker 4: at HUD office in Washington.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the HUD Headquarters Housing and Urban Development from They
Speaker 1: got TV screens, you know, in the lobbies and here
Speaker 1: and there, and somebody was it AI or something?
Speaker 2: It's AI. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also heard it described as a toe sucking video.
Speaker 3: That's what it was.
Speaker 2: It was. It was more toe Yeah, oh my, that
Speaker 2: is gross. It is. I mean, I know some of
Speaker 2: you like it, but okay. Moving on New York. Oh boy,
Speaker 2: New York posts.
Speaker 4: Married couple forced to sit next to woman's dead body
Speaker 4: after she drops dead on fifteen hour flight.
Speaker 2: Wow, can I get a different seat? Poet M can't fight.
Speaker 2: I don't think she'll mind. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Finally the Babylon Trump fired after forgetting to reply.
Speaker 2: To Elon's email. Yeah, i'd be.
Speaker 1: Jamming her up in the overhead compartment. Can I move
Speaker 1: your bag? I need to fit her up in here?
Speaker 1: Bender always, Well, if you're gonna leave her in the
Speaker 1: seat next to me, literally anywhere but right pressing against
Speaker 1: my elbow, ikey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the arm rest is mine. Dead lady.
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Speaker 1: podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: I thought it was great because we have people that
Speaker 3: don't show up to work and nobody even knows if.
Speaker 2: They work for the government.
Speaker 3: So by asking the question tell us what you did
Speaker 3: this week, what he's doing is saying are you actually working?
Speaker 3: And then if you don't answer, like you sort of
Speaker 3: semi fired or you fired because a lot of people
Speaker 3: are not answering because they don't even exist.
Speaker 5: Trying to turn feral workers into this sort of protected
Speaker 5: class of victims, I think is a bad spin. Like
Speaker 5: this is a country with massive private sector churn. People
Speaker 5: lose their jobs all the time, and to say this
Speaker 5: is all outrageous, I don't think as the political salience
Speaker 5: of this where it's going to matter, and all of
Speaker 5: this is competence.
Speaker 2: When does it.
Speaker 5: Seem like these guys are doing all of this chaos
Speaker 5: stuff for chaos's sake rather than actually making the government
Speaker 5: more efficient and more responsive to people's needs.
Speaker 2: And time will tell on that.
Speaker 1: Jonah Goldberg of the Dispatch, There, you got to remember
Speaker 1: the trump of the White House before that, you got
Speaker 1: to remember that the pushback is driven mostly by they
Speaker 1: think it's horrifying that any government worker would ever be
Speaker 1: challenged or fired.
Speaker 2: That's what drives their emotion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think some of that sincere and I think
Speaker 1: some of it is just the if the other side
Speaker 1: is doing it, I must act as if it's outrageous
Speaker 1: and horrifying, even if it's fairly mundane. I like reining
Speaker 1: in the bloat of the federal government. How can you
Speaker 1: be in favor of bloat. I don't think anybody really is.
Speaker 1: But if Trump's doing it, it's a horror. You know,
Speaker 1: as a physical feeling. That might be my least favorite feeling.
Speaker 1: Might bloat, bloated. I I prefer bloated to desiccate it.
Speaker 2: Let's see that's completely dried out.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know if that that happens to me
Speaker 1: very often, but yeah, I do not like the feeling
Speaker 1: of being bloated.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, noted.
Speaker 1: So a couple of things on the quick side, but
Speaker 1: I think are pretty interesting. One of the things that
Speaker 1: Trump administration is doing is going after these quasi independent agencies.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the National Labor Relations Board or some of
Speaker 1: the other agencies and commissions, Federal Trade Commission, you know
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. If it's not an actual cabinet
Speaker 1: and it says commission or board, it's it's one of
Speaker 1: these quasi independent agencies, you know, decreed by Congress, but
Speaker 1: then but.
Speaker 2: Then answerable to nobody.
Speaker 1: And there are a couple of disputes going on right
Speaker 1: now having to do with Trump firing the heads of
Speaker 1: some of these things, including a woman by the name
Speaker 1: of gwyn will Cox who's a Democratic member of the
Speaker 1: National Labor Relations Board. And the reason it's interesting is
Speaker 1: that she and her lawyers are saying firing her is
Speaker 1: a blatant violation of a statute as well as a
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty five president called Humphreys executor, and that is virtually.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what.
Speaker 1: I'm not an expert on this, but apparently the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court has not really taken a serious look at these agencies.
Speaker 1: Independent I'm quoting now from who wrote to Oh, it's
Speaker 1: the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. Independent agencies
Speaker 1: are a constitutional chimera, that is like a half.
Speaker 2: Man, half beast.
Speaker 1: Yet the High Court blessed them sort of in the
Speaker 1: Humphreys case. They said, quote, the Federal Trade Commission is
Speaker 1: an administrative body created by Congress to carry into effect
Speaker 1: legislative policies. Its duties are per formed without executive leave,
Speaker 1: meaning control, and then the contemplation of the statute must
Speaker 1: be free from executive control. Now, these bodies regulate much
Speaker 1: of the US economy, and they're democlarocratically answerable to well
Speaker 1: who exactly?
Speaker 2: Well, right, that's why it's so crazy.
Speaker 1: People yelling on the street about who elected Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: Who elected all these people that are making up these rules,
Speaker 1: sending me letters saying I got to sending more money
Speaker 1: or I'm going to jail and whatnot. Right, Yeah, So
Speaker 1: you know, to paraphrase the Constitution, the Congress writs the
Speaker 1: laws and then the executive branch takes pains to execute
Speaker 1: them faithfully. Right, Well, let's go back to that quote
Speaker 1: from the Supreme Court in FDR's super progressive era, the
Speaker 1: Federal Trade Commission is an administrative body created by Congress. Too.
Speaker 1: Here's the key phrase, carry into effect legislative policies. Does
Speaker 1: that not sound like the executive branch? What does carry
Speaker 1: into effect legislative policies mean? Probably enforce the laws means
Speaker 1: you can probably do anything you want. Well, exactly, you
Speaker 1: function as the executive branch. And the idea that that's
Speaker 1: a fourth branch, a government not answerable to the actual
Speaker 1: executive branch.
Speaker 2: To me is looney tunes.
Speaker 1: So this is it reminds me of the overturning of
Speaker 1: the Chevron deference case earlier by the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: I guess last fall.
Speaker 1: I think it's terrific and it could have a fundamental
Speaker 1: freeing effect on the economy, which means, you know, higher wages,
Speaker 1: more economic activity, less paperwork for everybody. I was, so
Speaker 1: the bottom line, you think the Supreme Court is going
Speaker 1: to have to deal with this and come up with
Speaker 1: some rules.
Speaker 2: I think there's a really good chance.
Speaker 1: Although often, you know, we Supreme Court watchers, Jack are
Speaker 1: sometimes surprised and disappointed that the Court says, nah, we're
Speaker 1: not going to look at that one, or tells the
Speaker 1: Appeals Court they just tweak.
Speaker 2: It a little bit. You know that the time is
Speaker 2: here for bold action.
Speaker 1: Other thing I promised we would talk about. Ah, And
Speaker 1: it's interesting. David Leonhardt is he's an editor writer with
Speaker 1: the New York Times. He does their morning newsletter. Thinking
Speaker 1: he is remarkably moderate for a New York Times guy,
Speaker 1: and a very smart guy. You know, I disagree with
Speaker 1: him a fair amount, but he's one of those reasonable lefties.
Speaker 1: But he published a Twitter thread and then an article
Speaker 1: that expands on it, and I'm just gonna read you
Speaker 1: part of it. The left has lost power in the US,
Speaker 1: in Germany, Italy and Sweden, Canada and Australia appear to
Speaker 1: be next, and the far right is growing across the West.
Speaker 1: And the point of his article is, but there is
Speaker 1: one European country where the left has won reelection and
Speaker 1: marginalized the far right, Denmark. Why And then he goes
Speaker 1: into some detail about Denmark's center left party is way left.
Speaker 1: Part of that is because of oil money. Denmark lives
Speaker 1: in a fan tannessy Land. It's a small, homogeneous country
Speaker 1: that you know, everybody's ordained pretty much, that has humongous
Speaker 1: amounts of oil revenue, and so they don't have to
Speaker 1: behave like a normal economy and government behave.
Speaker 2: So they're not a great example of much.
Speaker 1: But he points out that the key difference between Denmark's
Speaker 1: center left and the center left in the US and
Speaker 1: much of Europe is that Danish progressives listen to working
Speaker 1: class voters on immigration and reduced immigration levels. As Prime
Speaker 1: Minister Unpronounceable told me, immigration is the number one reason
Speaker 1: that the Danish left still governs even when the left
Speaker 1: is in retreat most everywhere else. Consider this around the world.
Speaker 1: There is not one clear example of a country that
Speaker 1: has accepted large numbers of newcomers in recent decades. I
Speaker 1: would point out, like completely willy nilly too, there is
Speaker 1: not one clear example of a country that's accepted large
Speaker 1: numbers of newcomers in recent decades while marginalizing the far
Speaker 1: and reducing inequality. Immigrations and is now roiling politics in
Speaker 1: the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Europe, and the Left's
Speaker 1: recent strategy lecturing working class voters and ignoring the burdens
Speaker 1: on their communities has not worked. And of course not
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's no doubt that if Biden had cracked
Speaker 1: down on the border, he wouldn't have stated in office
Speaker 1: because of actuary tables, but a Kamala or someone could
Speaker 1: have won, no doubt. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and what a
Speaker 1: nightmare that would have been. So I don't want to
Speaker 1: have like Stockholm syndrome where I'm trying to please my kidnappers.
Speaker 1: So he won't beat me anymore or whatever with the
Speaker 1: mainstream media. But because I love my country more than
Speaker 1: you know, kicking the left.
Speaker 2: The fact that.
Speaker 1: The New York Times is saying, hey, immigration policy has
Speaker 1: been abusive of the working class and they're not taking it.
Speaker 1: And you know what else they're right is crazy over
Speaker 1: but I'm glad to see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Cool. And then that whole thing with uh Humphreys
Speaker 2: what you might call it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Humphrey's executor, don't mess with him and scrotum
Speaker 1: watchers are going to be seen if the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: takes that up. Scotis Scotus is the generally usedttus acronym.
Speaker 2: I get that mixed up all the time. Oh that's
Speaker 2: that's got to be uncomfortable. You have to file an appeal.
Speaker 1: Well, and I've had some funny exchanges in the bedroom.
Speaker 2: We've got mail bag on the way.
Speaker 1: Our text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 2: Four drinking songs. I've been drinking nightwith. That's what I'm drinking.
Speaker 2: He is feeling a bit festive last night? Oh really?
Speaker 1: Yeah? It got a little Thursday night ish on Monday night.
Speaker 1: Got Thursday on a Monday gotcha. Yeah, I'm reminded of
Speaker 1: the great old ninety seven song Every night is Friday
Speaker 1: Night Without You. Anyway, it was lovely and I was
Speaker 1: just feeling festive and perhaps tip the glass once more than.
Speaker 2: I needed to. But what are you gonna do? How
Speaker 2: many time you're gonna do? How many times do you live? Once? Once?
Speaker 3: Ish?
Speaker 2: Right, no offense to our Buddhist friends, yolo.
Speaker 1: Their belief in reincarnation sounds like, I don't know, an
Speaker 1: opportunity and a punishment. Well, it depends what kind of
Speaker 1: life you live, right, You want to come back as
Speaker 1: a human or a bug?
Speaker 2: Could being a jerk. You're gonna come back as a bug.
Speaker 1: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, continuing on
Speaker 1: our series from George Washington.
Speaker 2: A couple of them because they're short.
Speaker 1: Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Patriotism isn't always the last refuge of a scoundrel,
Speaker 1: but it is sometimes.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then finally this, this is.
Speaker 1: A hundreds of year old version of one of your
Speaker 1: favorite sayings, Jack, that the truth bats last. Well, Washington,
Speaker 1: not a baseball fan, according to the historical record, didn't
Speaker 1: get that reference. He said truth will ultimately prevail where
Speaker 1: there are pains to bring it to light.
Speaker 2: Reality bats last.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it takes a long damn time, though the liars
Speaker 1: are good at their jobs. Mailbag drops no mailbag at
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty dot Com will begin with a bonus
Speaker 1: quote set along by Scott from Bordeaux, France. Wow, that's
Speaker 1: a humble brag again, no kidding, legendary wine growing region,
Speaker 1: speaking of tipping the glass. I'd like to get there
Speaker 1: sometime myself. I tried and the trip was canceled by
Speaker 1: the damn COVID. Anyway, he quotes Margaret Thatcher, who said
Speaker 1: power is like being a lady.
Speaker 2: If you have to tell people you are, you aren't
Speaker 2: good one. I love that. Maggie Thatcher, and.
Speaker 1: Scott points out this one inadvertently also hits on Joe's
Speaker 1: gender bending madness. If you have to say I'm a woman,
Speaker 1: you know, speaking of hubble brags. I know someone that
Speaker 1: every story they tell has to include when I was
Speaker 1: in law school, just to make sure everybody.
Speaker 2: Knows they went to law school.
Speaker 1: You can't say when I was in college. You gotta
Speaker 1: always say when I was in law school or when
Speaker 1: I was younger. You don't even need to say when
Speaker 1: you were in college.
Speaker 2: We're back in school. Yeah, how about I go with
Speaker 2: this one?
Speaker 1: Just before I got my PhD, and it's still before
Speaker 1: I got my PhD. Right now, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: There you go right any minute though, I was working
Speaker 1: on my PhD. When which is more or less it
Speaker 1: will be the day I croak. Anyway, let's see Ted Wrights, guys,
Speaker 1: the left wants to call mothers inseminated persons.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Proposed law in Wisconsin, Tony Evers. The communist governors in
Speaker 1: favor of this garbage inseminated persons. Really, they want to
Speaker 1: reduce pregnant women to something out of the Handmaid's Tale.
Speaker 2: Irony.
Speaker 1: Michael Savage always claimed that liberalism was a mental disorder.
Speaker 1: I always assumed he was just being hyperbolic. But when
Speaker 1: you look at what the left has become and what
Speaker 1: they support, mmmm, Well, in Wisconsin, of all places, you
Speaker 1: can't get more regular person salt of the earth the Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: And then you got the government in charges wack of doodles.
Speaker 1: Well, and that's the problem with our system, which is
Speaker 1: a wonderful system. But you got a handful of giant
Speaker 1: college towns, and then they enter the big cities in
Speaker 1: Wisconsin and they dominate what is geographically a very big,
Speaker 1: very red state. Moving along, rest in peace, ROBERTA. Flack Right,
Speaker 1: Zabo I dismissed her as a fine, you know, soft
Speaker 1: pop singer, not realizing what a jazz genius she was.
Speaker 1: My ignorance on display, I apologize for it, he writes,
Speaker 1: Those squealing corn pigs today couldn't order a pizza over
Speaker 1: the phone without auto tune, let alone to be worthy
Speaker 1: to even be a Roady carrying ROBERTA Flax microphones squealing
Speaker 1: corn pigs.
Speaker 2: I just like this sentence.
Speaker 1: Wow, couldn't order a pizza on the phone without auto tune.
Speaker 1: That's a great blast. Sabbo jt and Livermore are always
Speaker 1: good for a great email, says I don't know if
Speaker 1: Trump is playing seven dimensional chess or if he's utilizing
Speaker 1: utilizing the art tactics from the Art of war, if
Speaker 1: he's secretly a tai Chi master. But Trump a derangement syndrome,
Speaker 1: and Trump's first term showed pretty clearly that the left
Speaker 1: would oppose anything Trump stood for. Trump wanted secure borders,
Speaker 1: low crime, kids back in school during COVID, Then the
Speaker 1: left felt they must take the opposite positions. So what
Speaker 1: does Trump do in his second term? He picks dozens
Speaker 1: of policies that have eighty plus percent support and dares
Speaker 1: the left to take the opposite stance, and they do
Speaker 1: just that. They step on every rake that Trump leaves around.
Speaker 1: They want massive illegal immigration, high crime, massive wasteful government spending,
Speaker 1: green energy, doggles, poorn in elementary school libraries. They want
Speaker 1: to protect convicted murders, rapists, and pedophiles from being deported.
Speaker 1: They want to spend billions of dollars on trans plays
Speaker 1: in foreign countries. Want to continue their racist d I programs.
Speaker 1: They want men to play in women's sports and be
Speaker 1: in women's locker rooms. They want to continue to sexualize
Speaker 1: grade school kids and to perform irreversible experimental surgeries on
Speaker 1: preprebescent kids against the wishes of their parents. How dumb
Speaker 1: can one party be? Well, I'm saying just just let's
Speaker 1: be smart, let's be strategic, not give them an opening.
Speaker 1: Let's see a grant.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So, maybe I'm giving Trump too much credit, But what
Speaker 1: if he's using this mineral rights issue with Ukraine to
Speaker 1: strong arm Russia. Once the US owns those minerals, couldn't
Speaker 1: we defend them from Russia? Well, yeah, that is many
Speaker 1: people's take. Not this way, but more of the good
Speaker 1: news in this would be we would have a real
Speaker 1: interest in making sure Russia doesn't take over Ukraine.
Speaker 2: That would be the security guarantee.
Speaker 1: You probably you're definitely onto something grant and we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that more later. Love this from Matt Land, surveyor,
Speaker 1: longtime friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show. Helped me
Speaker 1: out personally once or twice. Dear a g read the
Speaker 1: California bull s train. You're discussing that a majority Californians
Speaker 1: are still in favor of it. Effing kill me right.
Speaker 1: Your explanation of why was a good one makes sense.
Speaker 1: The polling question was worded intentionally and could easily mislead
Speaker 1: the average Californian who's not really paying attention. Classic polling technique.
Speaker 1: He said, there may be even more to that. Back
Speaker 1: to Trump derangement syndrome, Trump said he was against the
Speaker 1: bullet train. Therefore the blue voters in California are for it.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for the day that Trump comes out pro
Speaker 1: abortion even up to the third trimester, and that it's
Speaker 1: permissible in all fifty states and that the federal government
Speaker 1: will pay for it, because I'm convinced that liberals will
Speaker 1: then start talking about baby killing and the sanctity of life,
Speaker 1: while Republicans will begin reciting whatever reason Trump gives being
Speaker 1: pro abortion.
Speaker 2: Does anyone think for themselves anymore? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Trump should say every girl's volleyball team has to have
Speaker 1: at least one dude on it, and the mainstream medium,
Speaker 1: the left would go opposite women's rights.
Speaker 2: Why don't we protect wemen's faces. This is the misogyny
Speaker 2: of the Trumpet ministration.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he may be right that that that
Speaker 1: Ukraine issue with the mineral rights and stuff, that's really interesting.
Speaker 1: So we if we were getting like fifty percent of
Speaker 1: the revenue or whatever they're going to work out, then
Speaker 1: Trump would say to putin or the agreement would be hey,
Speaker 1: and that's that's that's a lot of money for us.
Speaker 2: So don't be going to mess in with our with
Speaker 2: our with our hustle, and I will steal man, as
Speaker 2: we say these days.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration foreign policy philosophy that seems to be
Speaker 1: taking shape of a great powers world as opposed to
Speaker 1: an international order, laws and traditions world. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: I agree with it, but at least we can understand
Speaker 1: what he is trying to do it. I think so
Speaker 1: or on that to come coming up next hour. Kicking
Speaker 1: off next hour, Tom McClintock, Congressman, fiscal conservative, who wants
Speaker 1: to talk about Doge, how it's going, some of the
Speaker 1: idiotic coverage it's getting in the media.
Speaker 2: I think this will gratify yee. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'd like to talk to him about where he thinks
Speaker 1: we are on the big tax bill, because the Trump
Speaker 1: tax cuts expire and they got to get to work
Speaker 1: on that real soon, like in the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and that's going to be quite the political battle.
Speaker 2: And I haven't paid my taxes in like ten years,
Speaker 2: so I'd like to know what the future looks like.
Speaker 1: Oh jeez, if you miss podcast Armstrong and Getty on
Speaker 1: demand Armstrong and Getty